The pathologists, Dr. Michael Baden of New York and Dr. Werner Spitz
of suburban Detroit, examined photos of the wound released by the
sheriff's office. They told The Associated Press on Friday they
concluded the bullet was fired from inches away, not at least 25 yards
as Puroll said.

It's "a close wound, not a distant wound, based on the appearance of
the skin around the wound, which is normally what we forensic
pathologists look at," said Baden, a former New York City chief medical
examiner currently working for the New York State Police. "We're talking
inches, not yards."